• Title/Summary/Keyword: Liquid Crystal Technology

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The Experimental Study of the Interaction Between the Flow rind Temperature Field and a Boundary Layer Due to a Variety of tole Height of a Vortex Generator (와동 발생기 높이 변화에 대한 경계층 내의 유동장과 온도장에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Gwon, Su-In;Yang, Jang-Sik;Lee, Gi-Baek
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.82-93
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    • 2002
  • The effects of the interaction between the flow and temperature field and a boundary layer due to a variety of the height of a vortex generator are experimentally investigated. The test facility consists of a boundary-layer wind tunnel with the vortex generator protruding from the bottom surface. In order to control the strength of the longitudinal vortices, the angle of attack and the spacing distance of the vortex generator are 20 degree and 40 mm, respectively. The height of the vortex generator (H) is 15 mm, 20 mm and 30 mm and the cord length of it is 50 mm. Three-component mean velocity measurements are made using a 5-hole probe system and the surface temperature distribution is measured by the hue capturing method using thermochromatic liquid crystals. By using the method mentioned above, the following conclusions are obtained from the present experiment. The boundary layer is thinned in the downwash region where the strong downflow and the lateral outflow of the boundary layer fluid occur and thickened in the upwash re,3ion where the longitudinal vortex sweeps low momentum fluid away from the bottom surface. In case that the height of the vortex generator increases, the averaged circulation and the maximum vorticity of the vortex pair decrease. The contours of the non-dimensional temperature show the similar trends fur all the cases (H=15 mm, 20 mm and 30 mm). The peak augmentation of the distribution of the local non-dimensional temperature occurs in the downwash region near the point of minimum boundary-layer thickness.

Synthesis and Properties of Semi-Flexible Aromatic Polyesters Containing Pentamethylene Group in Main Chain (주사슬에 펜타메틸렌기를 가지고 있는 반 유연성 방향족 폴리에스터의 합성 및 성질)

  • Bang, Moon-Soo;Yoon, Doo-Soo;Choi, Jae-Kon
    • Elastomers and Composites
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    • v.44 no.4
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    • pp.436-441
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    • 2009
  • Semi flexible polyesters containing aromatic rings and pentamethylene groups in the main chain were synthesized by direct polycondensation reaction. The structures of these polymers were investigated by $^1H$-NMR and FT-IR and the phase transition behavior was characterized with DSC, TGA and crossed polarizing microscope. Inherent viscosities ($\eta_{inh}$) of polymers measured in phenol/p-chlorophenol/1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane were between 0.46 and 1.30 dL/g. As increasing the linearlity of rigid moieties in polyster, melting transition temperatures ($T_m$) increased and solubilities in organic solvents decreased. P-H, P-mH and P-4H of the polymers formed turbid melts that showed stir-opalescence and nematic phase at the broad anisotropic region, However, P-R, P-C and P-2B did not exhibit any textures related to the liquid crystallinity.

Ion beam irradiation for surface modification of alignment layers in liquid crystal displays (액정 디스플레이 배향막을 위한 이온빔 표면조사에 관한 연구)

  • Oh, Byeong-Yun;Kim, Byoung-Yong;Lee, Kang-Min;Kim, Young-Hwan;Han, Jeong-Min;Lee, Sang-Keuk;Seo, Dae-Shik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2008.04a
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    • pp.41-41
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    • 2008
  • In general, polyimides (PIs) are used in alignment layers in liquid crystal displays (LCDs). The rubbing alignment technique has been widely used to align the LC molecules on the PI layer. Although this method is suitable for mass production of LCDs because of its simple process and high productivity, it has certain limitations. A rubbed PI surface includes debris left by the cloth, and the generation of electrostatic charges during the rubbing induces local defects, streaks, and a grating-like wavy surface due to nonuniform microgrooves that degrade the display resolution of computer displays and digital television. Additional washing and drying to remove the debris, and overwriting for multi-domain formation to improve the electro-optical characteristics such as the wide viewing angle, reduce the cost-effectiveness of the process. Therefore, an alternative to non-rubbing techniques without changing the LC alignment layer (i.e, PI) is proposed. The surface of LC alignment layers as a function of the ion beam (IE) energy was modified. Various pretilt angles were created on the IB-irradiated PI surfaces. After IB irradiation, the Ar ions did not change the morphology of the PI surface, indicating that the pretilt angle was not due to microgrooves. To verify the compositional behavior for the LC alignment, the chemical bonding states of the ill-irradiated PI surfaces were analyzed in detail by XPS. The chemical structure analysis showed that ability of LCs to align was due to the preferential orientation of the carbon network, which was caused by the breaking of C=O double bonds in the imide ring, parallel to the incident 18 direction. The potential of non-rubbing technology for fabricating display devices was further conformed by achieving the superior electro-optical characteristics, compared to rubbed PI.

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Simulation of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Color Filter by Using User-defined Coating Property of an Illumination Design Software (조명 설계 소프트웨어의 사용자 정의 코팅 기능을 사용한 콜레스테릭 액정 컬러 필터 시뮬레이션에 관한 연구)

  • Beom, Tae-Won;Cui, Hao;Lee, Hak-Suk;Yang, Jeong-Mun;Park, Jong-Rak;Yoon, Ki-Cheol;Jang, Won-Gun
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.294-301
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    • 2008
  • We have performed modeling and simulations of optical characteristics for a cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) color filter. Berreman's $4{\times}4$ matrix method was used for the calculation of reflectance spectra of the CLC color filter with respect to the incident angle. The results were employed as input parameters for a user-defined coating property of an illumination design software based on the ray-tracing method, LightTools. Color shift characteristics of a planar transmission-type CLC color filter were simulated using LightTools. The results were compared with the results obtained with Berreman's $4{\times}4$ matrix method. It was found that color shift characteristics of the CLC color filter could be simulated to a reasonable accuracy when the reflectance spectra with less than 5 degrees of incremental incidence-angle were used as the input data for the user-defined coating property of LightTools. We have simulated color shift characteristics of a reflection-type CLC color filter having hemi-spherical patterns. The simulation method reported in this paper has been found to be also used for a non-planar CLC color filter structure.

Accuracy comparison of 3-unit fixed dental provisional prostheses fabricated by different CAD/CAM manufacturing methods (다양한 CAD/CAM 제조 방식으로 제작한 3본 고정성 임시 치과 보철물의 정확도 비교)

  • Hyuk-Joon Lee;Ha-Bin Lee;Mi-Jun Noh;Ji-Hwan Kim
    • Journal of Technologic Dentistry
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    • v.45 no.2
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    • pp.31-38
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    • 2023
  • Purpose: This in vitro study aimed to compare the trueness of 3-unit fixed dental provisional prostheses (FDPs) fabricated by three different additive manufacturing and subtractive manufacturing procedures. Methods: A reference model with a maxillary left second premolar and the second molar prepped and the first molar missing was scanned for the fabrication of 3-unit FDPs. An anatomically shaped 3-unit FDP was designed on computer-aided design software. 10 FDPs were fabricated by subtractive (MI group) and additive manufacturing (stereolithography: SL group, digital light processing: DL group, liquid crystal displays: LC group) methods, respectively (N=40). All FDPs were scanned and exported to the standard triangulated language file. A three-dimensional analysis program measured the discrepancy of the internal, margin, and pontic base area. As for the comparison among manufacturing procedures, the Kruskal-Wallis test and the Mann-Whitney test with Bonferroni correction were evaluated statistically. Results: Regarding the internal area, the root mean square (RMS) value of the 3-unit FDPs was the lowest in the MI group (31.79±6.39 ㎛) and the highest in the SL group (69.34±29.88 ㎛; p=0.001). In the marginal area, those of the 3-unit FDPs were the lowest in the LC group (25.39±4.36 ㎛) and the highest in the SL group (48.94±18.98 ㎛; p=0.001). In the pontic base area, those of the 3-unit FDPs were the lowest in the LC group (8.72±2.74 ㎛) and the highest in the DL group (20.75±2.03 ㎛; p=0.001). Conclusion: A statistically significant difference was observed in the RMS mean values of all the groups. However, in comparison to the subtractive manufacturing method, all measurement areas of 3-unit FDPs fabricated by three different additive manufacturing methods are within a clinically acceptable range.

Effects of sodium dodecyl sulfate surfactant on up-conversion luminescence of Er3+/Yb3+-codoped NaLa(MoO4)2 nanocolloidal phosphor prepared by pulsed laser ablation in water

  • Kang, SukHyun;Jung, Kyung-Hwan;Kim, Kang Min;Kim, Won Rae;Han, HyukSu;Mhin, Sungwook;Son, Yong;Shim, Kwang Bo;Lee, Jung-Il;Ryu, Jeong Ho
    • Journal of Ceramic Processing Research
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.158-163
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    • 2019
  • Er3+/Yb3+-codoped NaLa(MoO4)2 colloidal nanocrystals were synthesized by pulsed laser ablations in de-ionized water and sodium dodecyl sulfate (NaC12H25SO4, SDS) aqueous solution for up-conversion (UC) luminescence bio-labeling applications. The influences of the SDS molecules on the crystallinities, crystal morphologies, crystallite sizes, and UC luminescence properties of the prepared Er3+/Yb3+-codoped NaLa(MoO4)2 colloidal nanocrystals were investigated in detail. Under a 980-nm excitation, the Er3+/Yb3+-codoped nanocolloidal NaLa(MoO4)2 suspension exhibited a weak red emission near 670 nm and strong green UC emissions at 530 and 550 nm, corresponding to the intra 4f transitions of Er3+ (4F9/2, 2H11/2, 4S3/2) → Er3+ (4I15/2). When the SDS solution was used, a smaller average crystallite size, narrower size distribution, and enhanced UC luminescence were observed. These characteristics were attributed to the amphoteric SDS molecules attached to the positively charged Er3+/Yb3+-codoped NaLa(MoO4)2 colloidal nanocrystals, effectively occupying the oxygen defect on their surfaces. The Er3+/Yb3+-codoped nanocrystalline NaLa(MoO4)2 suspension prepared in the SDS solution exhibited a remarkably strong green emission visible to the naked eyes.

Expanded Exit-Pupil Holographic Head-Mounted Display With High-Speed Digital Micromirror Device

  • Kim, Mugeon;Lim, Sungjin;Choi, Geunseop;Kim, Youngmin;Kim, Hwi;Hahn, Joonku
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.40 no.3
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    • pp.366-375
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    • 2018
  • Recently, techniques involving head-mounted displays (HMDs) have attracted much attention from academia and industry owing to the increased demand for virtual reality and augmented reality applications. Because HMDs are positioned near to users' eyes, it is important to solve the accommodation-vergence conflict problem to prevent dizziness. Therefore, holography is considered ideal for implementing HMDs. However, within the Nyquist region, the accommodation effect is limited by the space-bandwidth-product of the signal, which is determined by the sampling number of spatial light modulators. In addition, information about the angular spectrum is duplicated over the Fourier domain, and it is necessary to filter out the redundancy. The size of the exit-pupil of the HMD is limited by the Nyquist sampling theory. We newly propose a holographic HMD with an expanded exit-pupil over the Nyquist region by using the time-multiplexing method, and the accommodation effect is enhanced. We realize time-multiplexing by synchronizing a high-speed digital micromirror device and a liquid-crystal shutter array. We also demonstrate the accommodation effect experimentally.

Electro-Optical Characteristics of the Ion-Beam-Aligned FFS-LCD on a Diamond-like-Carbon Thin Film

  • Hwang, J.Y.;Park, C.J.;Seo, D.S.;Jeong, Y.H.;Kim, K.C.;Ahn, H.J.;Baik, H.K.
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.1132-1136
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    • 2004
  • In this paper, we intend to make FFS mode cell with LC alignment used non-rubbing method, ion beam alignment method on the a-C:H thin film, to analyze electro-optical characteristics in this cell. We studied on the suitable inorganic thin film for FFS-LCD and the aligning capabilities of nematic liquid crystal (NLC) using the new alignment material of a-C:H thin film as working gas at rf bias condition. A high pretilt angle of about 5$^{\circ}$ by ion beam(IB) exposure on the a-C:H thin film surface was measured. An excellent voltage-transmittance (V-T) and response time curve of the ion-beam-aligned FFS-LCD was observed with oblique ion beam exposure on the DLC thin films.

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Computer Simulation of Coating Behavior Including Air for Various Coater Geometries and Operational Conditions (코팅 공정에서 공기를 고려한 코터형상 및 운전조건에 따른 코팅현상 해석)

  • Kim, H.Y.;Lyu, M.Y.;Choi, J.G.
    • Transactions of Materials Processing
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.156-159
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    • 2009
  • Slot coating has been wide spread in photo-resist coating on the glass for liquid crystal display. Die in slot coater consists of manifold and land. Material comes in inlet of the die and flow into the manifold and then flow out through the land. The coating thickness variations along the die length depend upon inside of die design such as manifold and die land. However the coating thickness variations along the moving direction(coating direction) of the coater depend upon the operational conditions of coater as well as die lip design. The coating behaviors including atmospheric air have been investigated in this study. Die geometries considered in this study were nozzle gap and length of the die lip. Coating gap and coating speed were the variables fur coating operational conditions. When the nozzle gap and length of die lip increased climbing effect of PR on the downstream die lip was reduced. Subsequently uniformity of coating thickness improved. Uniformity of coating thickness also enhanced as coating gap and coater speed increased. The uniformity of coating gap was related to the velocity vector distributions on the coating surface.

Influence upon Machining Accuracy of Micro-Pattern Roll Mold Processed by Temperature Variation (미세 패턴 롤 금형 가공시스템의 온도변화가 가공정밀도에 미치는 영향 연구)

  • Je, T.J.;Park, S.C.;Lee, K.W.;Noh, J.S.;Choi, D.S.;Whang, K.H.
    • Transactions of Materials Processing
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.107-111
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    • 2009
  • Temperature variation happens in micro prism roll mold processing system during machining the prism pattern roll mold using manufacturing optical films of LCD (liquid crystal display). This temperature variation induces pitch errors of the prism patterns. The temperature variation displaces the positions of the diamond cutting tool on the roll which was coated by the copper. In order to prevent the pitch errors, the stabilizing the temperature of machining environment is needed. Therefore, the researching on the temperature variation of the ultra-precision roll mold processing system on the machining of micro prism rot 1 mold is needed. In this paper, the temperature variation of micro prism roll mold processing system is researched, the influence is analyzed, and the study for reducing the pitch errors carried out.